By AFP/Rémi Banet with Burcin GercekWith 38 people dead in four days and 26 in intensive care after drinking bootleg liquor in Istanbul, the political...

By UN NewsThe deadly wildfires that have swept through the Los Angeles area, destroying whole communities and causing billions in damage, reveal why c...

By UN NewsThe world is facing an extraordinary convergence of crises that has left 305 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.In res...

By AFP/Romain FONSEGRIVESOn one side of the street lie the ashes of ruined houses, lost to the huge blazes that defeated Los Angeles firefighters when...

By AFP/Issam AHMEDFirst came the slow hand movements, then the tremor, and now the looming fear of what lies ahead.David Jilbert's devastating Parkins...

By AFP/Valentin Rakovsky and Laurence CoustalThe war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas, which on Wednesday agreed a ceasefire, has killed ten...

By AFP/Yannick PASQUETThey were four years old, 15 or only seven months when they were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald and Raven...

By AFP/Gonzalo TORRICOBolivian shopkeeper Cristobal Quispe's humble brick home teeters precariously on the slope of an unstable hillside in La Paz, ne...

By AFPForest fires fueled by a heat wave scorched a picturesque corner of Argentina's Patagonia region Thursday, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of...

By AFP/Maggy DONALDSONTikTok has dramatically changed music discovery and marketing -- a reliance the looming US ban on the popular app has underscore...

By AFPArmed conflict is the biggest risk this year, a World Economic Forum survey warned on Wednesday, as political divisions and fragmentation deepen...

By AFP/Layal Abou Rahal and Aya IskandaraniLebanese judge Tarek Bitar resumed his investigation into the deadly 2020 Beirut port blast on Thursday, ch...

By AFPOver 360 media workers were behind bars in the final month of 2024, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported Thursday, highlighting C...

By AFPGlobal growth should remain stable this year and next, but at recent historic lows, the World Bank said Thursday, expressing particular concern...

By AFPThe UN mission in Libya has called for an urgent investigation into reports of abuse and torture of inmates, following online footage said to be...

By AFP/Dessy SAGITAScrolling on social media, Indonesian moviegoer Jessica Sihotang stumbled across a film depicting a fellow woman in her 30s struggl...

By AFP/Acil TabbaraIn a Damascus courtyard, Syrian activists brainstormed strategies to ensure their country does not return to authoritarianism, in a...

By AFP/Youssef HassounaAfter news of a ceasefire agreement sparked mass rejoicing in Gaza, residents woke up Thursday to columns of smoke, rubble and...

By AFP/Nina Larson with Amelie Bottollier-DepoisWith just days to go before Donald Trump again enters the White House, anxiety is rising across UN age...

By AFP/Magdalena PACIOREKDetections of irregular migrants entering the European Union fell in 2024 to the lowest level recorded since 2021 due to a cr...

By AFP/Zain Zaman JANJUAAneesa Haroon drops off her tattered school bag at her rural home in Pakistan and hurriedly grabs lunch before joining her fat...

By AFP/Yussel GonzalezDays before Donald Trump returns to the White House with a vow of mass deportations, migrants in Mexico say they are increasingl...

By AFPA series of underwater explosions that ruptured the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022 caused the largest known methane leak on record from a sin...

By AFPDonald Trump's nominee for energy secretary, a fracking magnate who has previously expressed climate change skepticism, advocated for renewable...